on Dr. Jerdon's ' Birds of India.' 31 



that province and its vicinity (P. Z. S. 1841, p. 431). It is 

 doubtless a mistake. In the India Museum are specimens of 

 M. maderaspatana from Kemaon and Western Himalaya ; of 

 M. dukhunensis from Shikarpore and Kemaon ; and of M. alba 

 (vera) from Ghuzni, Kemaon, Kashmir, and Sinde ; so that this 

 also has to be included in the list of Indian Motacilla. In the 

 young of M. maderaspatana, the black portion of the plumage 

 is replaced by darkish-ashy : specimen from Nipal. (For figures 

 of M. personata and M. dukhunensis, vide Gould's B. As. 

 pt. xiii.) 



595. Nemoricola indica (Gmelin); Gould, B. As. pt. xiv. pi. 

 This species occurs also near Pekin (Swinhoe). Mr. Gould 



changes the name to Limonidromus. 



596. PiPASTES AGiLis (Sykcs), Temm. & Schl. Faun. Japon., 

 Aves, tab. xxiii. ; Gould, B. As. pt. xvii. pi. 



Doubtless the race obtained by Mr, Wallace in Batchian 

 (P. Z. S. 1860, p. 350). Sykes's type specimen in the India 

 Museum has, however, more the appearance of the European 

 P. irivialis. I have never heard a Tree-Pipit sing in India; 

 but the song and manners ascribed to Anthus rufulus by Sir R. 

 H. Schomburgk (Ibis, 1864, p. 249) are evidently those of a 

 Pipastes. The habits and song of Corydalla rufula are much 

 the same as in Anthus pratensis, as indeed is implied by Dr. 

 Jerdon's description of them. 



600. Corydalla rufula (Vieillot) ; Anthus pallescens, Sun- 

 devall. 



Dr. Pucheran (Arch, du Mus. vii. p. 362) is inclined to iden- 

 tify Anthus rufulus, Vieillot, with C. striolata, nobis. Vieillot's 

 figure (Gal. des Ois. pi. 161) is extravagantly coloured; but 

 his description suits the common Bengal bird, and he gives 

 Bengal as the habitat. 



605. Anthus cervinus (Pallas), Middendorff, Sib. Reise, 

 tab. xiv. figs. 1-3 ; Bree, B. Eur. ii. p. 155, pi.; Jaubert, Rich. 

 Orn. Mid. Fr. p. 284, pi. Syn. A. cecilii, Audouin, A. rufogu- 

 laris, Brehm, A. ruficollis, Vieillot. 



To this bird, in winter plumage, I feel confident that the al- 

 leged Siamese A. pratensis (cf. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 151, and Ibis, 



